Did Donald Trump Just Ask 318 Million Americans to Masturbate?

Hey, remember when Donald Trump's record with women went under fire on the debate stage, prompting Trump to alienate women (who make up roughly 50 percent of the voting population) even further by calling Alicia Machado fat the next morning?

Remember how, two days later, Megyn Kelly demanded answers about Trump's sexism from Kellyanne Conway, who couldn't give them? Remember how that week seemed like it would never end?

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Welcome back to that week, which is this week, which is still not over.

Very early this morning, Donald Trump, in what I assume was a fit of mouth breathing and excited finger spasms, sent out this series of tweets:

That is Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the President of the United States, telling voters to look up a sex tape. It is also Trump, who swears by the "many people are saying" source method, telling voters to distrust the media's sources. Funnily enough, this sex tape does not exist, according to Snopes, but that's a media source, so don't trust it. It is also Trump using the phrase "paragon of virtue," but that is neither here nor there.

Just to be clear, making a sex tape is not a criminal act.

Just to be clearer: There is no sex tape.

Welcome back to this never-ending week, which Newt Gingrich likened to "the new Benghazi lie."

Update: Machado, in response to Trump's tweets, posted the following image and message to Instagram Friday morning (translation below):

Translation:"The Republican candidate and his campaign team are again generating attacks, insults and trying to revive slanders and false accusations about my life. All this in order to intimidate, humiliate, and destabilize me again. The attacks that have emerged are slander and cheap lies generated with bad intentions, which have no foundation, that have been spread by sensationalist media. This, of course, is not the first time that I face such a situation. Through his hate campaign, the Republican candidate insists on discrediting and demoralizing a woman, which is definitely one of the most terrifying features. With this, he seeks to distract attention from his real problems and his inability to pretend to be the leader of this great country.

"When I was a young girl, the current candidate humiliated me, insulted me, and disrespected me publicly, as he usually did privately in the cruelest way. As this happened to me, it became clear over the years that his actions and behavior have been repeated with other women for decades. Therefore, I will keep standing, sharing my story, my absolute support for Mrs. Clinton on behalf of women, my sisters, aunts, grandmothers, cousins, friends and female community. To my Latinas and in general, I want to thank you all for the support, love and respect, for my career, my person as a human being and my family. I became a citizen of this great country because my daughter was born here and because I wanted to exercise my rights, including voting.

"I will continue standing firm in my lived experience as Miss Universe and you with me, supporting me. I've been so pleased with many kind words, with so much love. I'm focusing on my busy career, on my work as a mother, and I will continue taking positive steps for the Latino community, I will continue as an activist for women's rights and the respect we deserve. Again, I appreciate all your love and all your support, thank you.